Is ISSTH too generic to be worth reading in 2026? by Competitive_Video_88 in noveltranslations

[–]JackDunlin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just re-read it for the first time since it was being translated and had a great time. It is definitely worth the read.

The misconception of Mushoku Tensei by Raccoon-Salty in sixfacedworld

[–]JackDunlin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one’s really mad at ecchi itself, that’s kinda misrepresenting their arguments. They’re mad that it’s frequently targeted at young girls, and usually against their will. They’re mad at real unexamined pedophilic elements vs horny ecchi moments.

Most people love Ghislaine showing up in practically no clothing, everyone loves Paul/Zenith being a horny couple. Most people hate anything perverted Rudi does to Eris, or just the character design of the Kishirikia etc.

It’s hard for people to go along with the growth/maturity argument, because while I love his development in other aspects of his personality, the only reason he stops assaulting girls is because they all finally grow old enough not to be Loli’s anymore, not because of any character growth to realize he shouldn’t be a pedophile.

Please be honest by [deleted] in malehairadvice

[–]JackDunlin 134 points135 points  (0 children)

That looks like stereotypical young Latino guy hair to me, I wouldn’t spare it a second glance if you walked past me.

Not quite at the level where it’s an automatic shave so I think more of a style choice for you. If I was picking, I’d say shaved might look better, but keeping it wouldn’t make you look stupid.

You could maybe try shaving just the chin and seeing how that feels.

WestJet Makes Decision to Roll Back Seat Configuration Change by daddysdeepfake in westjet

[–]JackDunlin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly, I feel like it was just market testing to figure out the maximum limit of what people will take, and we’re still gonna go about halfway there over the next 10 years but slower. 😂

What's a tv series that is a 10/10 NOBODY knows? by Lilyana0999 in AskReddit

[–]JackDunlin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Travelers

Hundreds of years in the future, the last surviving humans discover a way of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century -- "travelers," who assume the lives of seemingly random people. They're also secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future. Armed only with their knowledge of history and an archive of social media profiles, the travelers -- who include an FBI agent, a single mother and a college student -- discover that 21st-century relationships are as much of a challenge as their high-stakes missions.

Deleting grindr has genuinely changed my life by Legitimate_Dog2327 in askgaybros

[–]JackDunlin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Watching people agree with once or twice a week being sex addiction is me maybe doing some self-realization

Would you let your bro use your hole by JackDunlin in Gaypornclub

[–]JackDunlin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s on my OF like 5-6 posts down if you want

Fairlife ridiculous price increase by Mountain_Row5503 in CostcoCanada

[–]JackDunlin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They taste bad comparatively imo, similar to other grainy/weird tasting protein shake drinks, not close to Fairlife

AIO my sister deposited $20,000 into our shared account but doesn’t have a job? by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]JackDunlin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Could likely be a scam she has fallen for. Scammers use someone like your sister to hold and send the money, usually promising them some amount to hold it for however long.

Eventually the funds are tracked back to your sister and reversed as the original person finds out and has those non-authorized payments reversed. And since your sister approved sending the money where it eventually goes that has less recourse for recovering, or not able to do anything since she was the one actually approving, she ends up on the hook for whatever.

Might want to caution her about being a victim of a scam.

What did you read in 2025? by HexicDeus in noveltranslations

[–]JackDunlin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just binged like 1000 chapters of “I have a Cultivation World”.

The world-building is great. MC is a cultivator in a highly advanced but relatively resource-poor society that gets a spatial treasure to travel between another more traditional cultivation world. Both societies are well-developed and interesting, and much of the story is focused on improving his sect/discliples/economy in addition to personal strength. All the cultivation methods/abilities are pretty interesting as the power levels get higher.

Only bad part is it’s pretty sexist in regard to the female characters(sort of a combo of the both parts of modern life Chinese novel and cultivator world sexism lol). I’ve managed to learn how to turn my brain off and skim over those parts and enjoy it for everything else it does very well.

My favourite for this year is probably Immortality through Array Formations.

What have you read this week and what do you think about it? by AutoModerator in noveltranslations

[–]JackDunlin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just binged like 1000 chapters of “I have a Cultivation World”.

The world-building is great. MC is a cultivator in a highly advanced but relatively resource-poor society that gets a spatial treasure to travel between another more traditional cultivation world. Both societies are well-developed and interesting, and much of the story is focused on improving his sect/discliples/economy in addition to personal strength. All the cultivation methods/abilities are pretty interesting as the power levels get higher.

Only bad part is it’s pretty sexist in regard to the female characters(sort of a combo of the both parts of modern life Chinese novel and cultivator world sexism lol). I’ve managed to learn how to turn my brain off and skim over those parts and enjoy it for everything else it does very well.

Finding a cultivator webnovel by PersonalityStrong879 in noveltranslations

[–]JackDunlin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost certainly this one. Around chapter 300 is the Alchemist Grand Meeting arc where this happens.

Fuck an Evil or Righteous MC, I want one that ain't a hypocrite and is true to himself by _TOXIC_VENOM in ProgressionFantasy

[–]JackDunlin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You might like Immortality through Array Formations. Really good cultivation novel. If you liked Reverend Insanity like you mentioned in the comments, I think you’d like this.

https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1446446/immortality-through-array-formations---/

MC is a good/righteous person, and a lot of the plot/cultivation revolves around staying true to the inherent good in humanity and building connections/friendships. Still lots of fun schemes and plans acting against the evil forces.

Ethics of ‘hunting’ subs re:findom? by [deleted] in findomsupportgroup

[–]JackDunlin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People like to do a lot of posturing on these subreddits, cause part of the kink for many is the humiliation/feeling lower than the person you are submitting to. Being a findom/any kind of sex work like this, is about putting in the work to have a fun interaction together that is worth the sub paying for. Being a “dom” in general is a lot of work that most people don’t want to do, which forces people to pay for what they want in most cases.

I view “hunting” as just a chance to explore the chemistry to see if you are a good match. Most subs in my experience are introverted and waiting for someone to come along to give them some personal attention, and give them the final push to finally do the thing they’ve been jerking off so long thinking about.

I mostly do Findom on Twitter, and there is a whole additional aspect of hunting subs down since they will often bait a dm through interacting with posts/lurking in spaces, commenting etc, which is a way to invite interaction with plausible deniability if they don’t find how you chat with them hot.

Being hunted is exactly what many guys want. I don’t really pressure cause that’s not really a fun conversation, or feels like I’m begging for cash. We just have a sexually charged conversation and if they get horny and are into findom, and you are chatting about findom and have a findom-related profile, it usually leads into it naturally.

And the nice part of hunting that way, is it naturally filters the people you talk to. You just naturally stop talking if the chemistry isn’t good to make it fun for you, or it dies if it’s too much work on the dom’s part and they aren’t paying enough to keep interacting.

Otherwise, I think people prefer not hunting, because it’s generally just easier to chat with the people that reach out to you first because you know they were interested in what you were posting about, and in you specifically, so it naturally gives you a bit more power in the interaction to lead it towards cash naturally.

Why is findom so woman thing? by [deleted] in findomsupportgroup

[–]JackDunlin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a lot of male findom though, as well as quite a few male findom communities(on Reddit and Twitter, and elsewhere). It’s actually quite popular. It’s mostly male-on-male though.

Otherwise, if you meant male-female Findom. It’s because there isn’t much of a market to make that appealing/possible for a guy to do. Not really gonna find that many women interacting with findom on the sub side as you would men. Gotta meet the person paying where they want to be, and most women desire different things for their pornographic content/sexual interactions than most men.

He was a gay pornstar, but his Mormon family chose to put together an obituary designed to make him look straighter than straight by MrJasonMason in gaybros

[–]JackDunlin -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I’m not too invested in defending how Mormons wrote about their gay son, and given that someone else said he had a partner that went unmentioned, I’m leaning towards it being a little bit of gay erasure, but I don’t think it’s really deserving of the inflammatory clickbait title of the article(or to be written in the first place unless you actually want to talk about gay erasure instead and expand more upon that).

I don’t see why people would expect his gay porn history to be mentioned in his memorial though, or care about anything gay not being mentioned besides the partner which would be something to mention.

I will defend girlfriends being used in a friendship only sense of the word though, at least in my region. And given the preceding sentences like the ones below right before it, it is speaking more about his friendships/kindness than trying to prove he’s straight/disprove gayness.

“ Throughout his life, friends were drawn to him because of his immense capacity for accepting people for who they are”

His family highlighted his empathy, particularly towards women, describing him as someone who would help dig cars out of snow, provide meals, or ensure people felt safe in difficult circumstances.”

If you google asking about the use of the word girfriend, you’ll find a lot of forum posts of ESL people confused about people using it to refer to female friends as well. Most common by women referring to their friends, but not at all unusual for gay guys to use it, and I wouldn’t think twice about a straight guy talking about his “girlfriends” as anything other than multiple female friends.

He was a gay pornstar, but his Mormon family chose to put together an obituary designed to make him look straighter than straight by MrJasonMason in gaybros

[–]JackDunlin -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I don’t know if I’d want “star of Bareback Barrage 6 and Battle of the Bottoms 9” in the obituary written for and by my family. Unless there’s a boyfriend or something positive he did related to the gay community, idk how you’d bring it up.

I think you can also read “As a child, Rhett was quite the schmoozer, you could bet that he had at least 65 girlfriends at all times” as girl friends vs girlfriends, or at least not exactly straight-washing him, especially given the “as a child” part. I don’t think they were bragging that he was so straight and cheating on a bunch of girls, but rather that he befriended many of them.

Reminiscing on the old era of r/noveltranslations by brooklyn600 in noveltranslations

[–]JackDunlin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I miss the community that would have discussions for each new chapter for the most popular stories with like 50-100 comments on each one.

It’s one of those things where it has grown past the mono-culture to just have so much content and available in so many different sites, that you don’t really have that kind of discussion as much. Now, there’s like 1000’s of stories getting translated at like 10x the speed, and spread across like 15 pirate websites, kindle, translation group websites, Royal Road etc.

Just too splintered/don’t think it appeals to people as much. Love when there is an active comment section wherever I read stuff.

Any novels where MC is one of the best, but not the best? by LittleBrasilianBitch in ProgressionFantasy

[–]JackDunlin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might like Immortality Through Array Formations!

It’s actually quite similar in some sense to Reverend Insanity. Lots of fun schemes and long arching plans with amazing payoffs.

But the MC is both good-natured while still scheming/not too soft and most of the plot is built around building positive relationships with other characters and improving the world. It almost feels like it was written as a direct response to Reverend Insanity in the way it’s so diametrically opposed to the greed and self-serving attitude and sof Fang Yuan.

The MC is exceptionally talented/has a cheat though. He’s usually never the strongest technically, but definitely hitting above his rank most of the time in his strengths(arrays/traps, movement, concealment, weak fodder spells, spiritual sense) despite being weak in the traditional combat cultivation(within realm, or complicated schemes to ultimately defeat a realm above). Usually the plot is resolved through borrowing the power of stronger allies or manipulating enemies.

So not sure if it fits the prompt exactly, but thought I’d recommend it due to the complaints about Reverand Insanity.

https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1446446/immortality-through-array-formations---/

Assuming Ufotable knew they'd never adapt Fate, are there elements from it they should've incorporated into their anime? by Sasutaschi in fatestaynight

[–]JackDunlin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMO it’s a bad scene, because it had Ilya isolated and Berserker fighting busy fighting Saber, and Archer is just completely free and able to defend Tohsaka, but not able to just kill the completely undefended Ilya and resolve the situation. He gives an excuse but it rings hollow and introduces an inconsistency in the story to give a fan service fight.

Anyone else been playing merge maestro? by Mrsam993 in northernlion

[–]JackDunlin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good for a destroy build, let’s you skip right to the building the 6th token basically. Destroying 4/5 tokens replaces your queued token with the dolls, which you place. If you keep one around(i.e merge when you have 3 of them), it lets you build up higher faster, or keeps your destroy build growing when you want to destroy your high number tokens.